Development of a location server software using model-driven architecture

ABSTRACTModel-driven architecture (MDA) presents a new approach to application development byassuming `model? the central element of software development. A complete MDA applicationconsists of a complete platform-independent UML model, one or more platform-specificmodels and complete implementations that the application developer decided to support.MDA separates the implementation details from the business functions. Thus, there is no needto model the functions and behavior of the application or system again whenever a newtechnology is introduced and it becomes easier to support new or different technologies.This work has the aim to describe MDA and related concepts and use them on an examplesoftware project. While the example software project, Location Server is developed, as muchas possible part of the code has been generated automatically from the platform-independentmodel as today?s MDA tools allow and minimum coding has been done manually.Keywords: Model-driven architecture, MDA, UML, MOF, software modeling, locationbased systems.